alt Hacker NewsI disagree. Asking stupid questions, even if in good faith, can be mean being banned from communities or losing participation privileges. Such as mathoverflow or stackexhcange.
I disagree. Asking stupid questions, even if in good faith, can be mean being banned from communities or losing participation privileges. Such as mathoverflow or stackexhcange.
Category error.
StackExchange is a massive, global forum which has to react defensively in order to maintain its high-quality knowledgebase against spammers, scammers, and the same questions being posed 10^N times.
The context here is about knowledge dissemination in local teams, groups, or organizations. Completely separate category, levels of trust, motivations, incentives, etc.